Wallace Shawn Quotes

When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

Wallace Shawn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 12, 1943

Topics

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In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

John McTiernan

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I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.

Robert Sean Leonard

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I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

Robert Smith

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Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.

Robert Gottlieb

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There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Sophocles

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We made this really dumb decision to put on the cover nothing from South Park but just a real life photo of a piece of pooh dressed up like Mr. Hankey, and a lot of people didn't, they didn't even know what it was.

Trey Parker

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If anything, when you're in your late 20s, early 30s, and then mid-30s, you're getting less attractive.

Rob McElhenney

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I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

Roberto Cavalli

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We need to look at how we can better fortify our force protection at military installations. But also, how can we deal with these mental health issues with our returning veterans? And our suicide rate in the military is twice as high as the average population.

Michael McCaul

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You don't get many chances in life to make a movie, and if someone says they don't like it, I say, 'I do'. I've made records before, and if someone said it sucked, it bummed me out.

Dito Montiel

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What's it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It's like getting a phone call from Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan saying they want you to coach them.

Antoine Fuqua

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What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

Allegra Versace

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